The award is in response to an “unsolicited proposal,” according to documents in the Federal Register. The University of ...
The drug is from a new class of antibiotics, the first new class in decades to be approved as a treatment for gonorrhea, ...
A single-dose oral antibiotic from a new class of drugs was as effective as the previous standard of care at treating ...
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Hyacinth Empinado was the special projects editor for STAT’s multimedia team. Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and ...
The ticker tape of the infectious disease world, ProMED, posts a steady stream of reports about unusual outbreaks. Few cases become big news. But on the eve of 2020, STAT senior writer Helen Branswell ...
As the number of cases of the paralytic disease fall, world health officials have to grapple with a vexing problem: a component of the most widely used polio vaccine now causes more disease than the ...
Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...
Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...
Can monkeypox be contained? Are snortable Covid-19 vaccines on the way? And when is a GIF worth $200,000? We cover all that and more this week on “The Readout LOUD,” STAT’s biotech podcast. STAT’s ...
Zoliflodacin, which will be marketed under the name Nuzolvence, is the first new drug to uniquely target gonorrhea infections ...